Report Summary

  • 38

    Performance

    Renders faster than
    57% of other websites

  • 79

    Accessibility

    Visual factors better than
    that of 47% of websites

  • 92

    Best Practices

    More advanced features
    available than in
    80% of websites

  • 83

    SEO

    Google-friendlier than
    46% of websites

rentokil.co.uk

Rentokil UK: Local Pest Control, Damp, Woodworm & Rot Experts

Page Load Speed

1.7 sec in total

First Response

67 ms

Resources Loaded

1.2 sec

Page Rendered

437 ms

rentokil.co.uk screenshot

About Website

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Key Findings

We analyzed Rentokil.co.uk page load time and found that the first response time was 67 ms and then it took 1.6 sec to load all DOM resources and completely render a web page. This is quite a good result, as only 35% of websites can load faster.

Performance Metrics

rentokil.co.uk performance score

38

Measured Metrics

name

value

score

weighting

FCP (First Contentful Paint)

Value3.3 s

41/100

10%

LCP (Largest Contentful Paint)

Value4.9 s

28/100

25%

SI (Speed Index)

Value5.6 s

53/100

10%

TBT (Total Blocking Time)

Value1,420 ms

15/100

30%

CLS (Cumulative Layout Shift)

Value0.016

100/100

15%

TTI (Time to Interactive)

Value10.5 s

24/100

10%

Network Requests Diagram

rentokil.co.uk

67 ms

www.rentokil.co.uk

478 ms

requirejs.js

199 ms

OtAutoBlock.js

36 ms

otSDKStub.js

48 ms

Our browser made a total of 16 requests to load all elements on the main page. We found that 13% of them (2 requests) were addressed to the original Rentokil.co.uk, 50% (8 requests) were made to Cdn.rentokil.com and 19% (3 requests) were made to Cdn.cookielaw.org. The less responsive or slowest element that took the longest time to load (478 ms) belongs to the original domain Rentokil.co.uk.

Page Optimization Overview & Recommendations

Page size can be reduced by 249.7 kB (69%)

Content Size

362.5 kB

After Optimization

112.7 kB

In fact, the total size of Rentokil.co.uk main page is 362.5 kB. This result falls beyond the top 1M of websites and identifies a large and not optimized web page that may take ages to load. 30% of websites need less resources to load. HTML takes 303.7 kB which makes up the majority of the site volume.

HTML Optimization

-82%

Potential reduce by 249.6 kB

  • Original 303.7 kB
  • After minification 267.4 kB
  • After compression 54.1 kB

HTML content can be minified and compressed by a website’s server. The most efficient way is to compress content using GZIP which reduces data amount travelling through the network between server and browser. This page needs HTML code to be minified as it can gain 36.3 kB, which is 12% of the original size. It is highly recommended that content of this web page should be compressed using GZIP, as it can save up to 249.6 kB or 82% of the original size.

Image Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 31.3 kB
  • After minification 31.3 kB

Image size optimization can help to speed up a website loading time. The chart above shows the difference between the size before and after optimization. Rentokil images are well optimized though.

JavaScript Optimization

-1%

Potential reduce by 122 B

  • Original 19.7 kB
  • After minification 19.7 kB
  • After compression 19.6 kB

It’s better to minify JavaScript in order to improve website performance. The diagram shows the current total size of all JavaScript files against the prospective JavaScript size after its minification and compression. This website has mostly compressed JavaScripts.

CSS Optimization

-0%

Potential reduce by 0 B

  • Original 7.7 kB

CSS files minification is very important to reduce a web page rendering time. The faster CSS files can load, the earlier a page can be rendered.

Requests Breakdown

Number of requests can be reduced by 5 (45%)

Requests Now

11

After Optimization

6

The browser has sent 11 CSS, Javascripts, AJAX and image requests in order to completely render the main page of Rentokil. We recommend that multiple CSS and JavaScript files should be merged into one by each type, as it can help reduce assets requests from 6 to 1 for JavaScripts and as a result speed up the page load time.

Accessibility Review

rentokil.co.uk accessibility score

79

Accessibility Issues

Contrast

These are opportunities to improve the legibility of your content.

Impact

Issue

High

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

Internationalization and localization

These are opportunities to improve the interpretation of your content by users in different locales.

Impact

Issue

High

<html> element does not have a [lang] attribute

Names and labels

These are opportunities to improve the semantics of the controls in your application. This may enhance the experience for users of assistive technology, like a screen reader.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

High

Form elements do not have associated labels

High

Links do not have a discernible name

Best Practices

rentokil.co.uk best practices score

92

Areas of Improvement

Trust and Safety

Impact

Issue

High

Does not use HTTPS

Low

Ensure CSP is effective against XSS attacks

General

Impact

Issue

Low

Detected JavaScript libraries

High

Missing source maps for large first-party JavaScript

SEO Factors

rentokil.co.uk SEO score

83

Search Engine Optimization Advices

Crawling and Indexing

To appear in search results, crawlers need access to your app.

Impact

Issue

High

Links are not crawlable

Content Best Practices

Format your HTML in a way that enables crawlers to better understand your app’s content.

Impact

Issue

High

Image elements do not have [alt] attributes

Mobile Friendly

Make sure your pages are mobile friendly so users don’t have to pinch or zoom in order to read the content pages. [Learn more](https://developers.google.com/search/mobile-sites/).

Impact

Issue

High

Document uses legible font sizes

High

Tap targets are not sized appropriately

Language and Encoding

  • Language Detected

    EN

  • Language Claimed

    EN

  • Encoding

    UTF-8

Language claimed in HTML meta tag should match the language actually used on the web page. Otherwise Rentokil.co.uk can be misinterpreted by Google and other search engines. Our service has detected that English is used on the page, and it matches the claimed language. Our system also found out that Rentokil.co.uk main page’s claimed encoding is utf-8. Use of this encoding format is the best practice as the main page visitors from all over the world won’t have any issues with symbol transcription.

Social Sharing Optimization

Open Graph data is detected on the main page of Rentokil. This is the best way to make the web page social media friendly. Here is how it looks like on Facebook: